Wangari Maathai Quotes
I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.
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I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.
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'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.
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I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
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Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
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When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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That's the great thing about Apple: it's very focused on the things that we know how to do very well and not try to extend ourselves to areas that we know very little about or don't have a lot of expertise in.
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Our ancestors were an uncommonly hardy race, for the majority of the remedies would kill any of us modern weaklings, even if in robust health when they were administered.
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I'm not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn't born to the purple.
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My first job was for a blue jean company as a sitting model. I posed for 15 minutes and made $50. It was 1976.
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When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.
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I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.
